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A worldwide coalition of big-name retailers led by Target and Best Buy has tapped the alliance of IBM, i2 and Ariba to run the WorldWide Retail Exchange (WWRE), a business-to-business (B2B) Web site that is slated for launch later this year ...

At first blush, it is one of those forehead slapping ideas that makes you wonder why you didn't think of it first. Selling postage over the Internet seems like a killer application of e-commerce technology. So why isn't everyone logging on to buy stamps? ...

E-commerce consultants are loudly proclaiming the importance of customer service, while customers themselves are demonstrating -- via their wallets -- that they simply will not accept bad service. And yet, e-tailer reaction has been slow ...

Online coupon distributor Coolsavings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSAV) cleared two patent infringement lawsuits off its plate Monday when it reached a settlement with rival Planet U ...

After a crazy couple of months -- during which a bevy of big name dot-coms had their survivor torches extinguished for good -- things seemed to have quieted down a bit. Maybe the long days of summer invited languishing, and seaside vacations temporarily soothed investor jitters ...

The battle between Napster and the recording industry is still a David versus Goliath proposition. But with a steady diet of venture capital flowing into Napster and its cousins, David is laying on some serious muscle -- and getting harder to cheer for every day ...

Joining Microsoft and IBM who have made similar moves, America Online is betting that speech-recognition will soon become a key component of e-commerce transactions ...

For sale: Customer list of failed retail dot-com. Includes thousands of one-time customers from Christmas of 1999. Value to a rival dot-com striving for all-important market share: Considerable. Real cost in terms of lost faith among consumers in the privacy and security of e-commerce: Immeasurable. Price: Negotiable ...

The purchase of RocketCash by free ISP NetZero last week is the latest evidence that e-commerce players are keen on capturing today's teenage Internet users and locking them up as tomorrow's customers ...

This year alone, U.S. firms will pay $20 billion (US$) to consultants for design and construction of e-commerce Web sites, even though -- according to Forrester Research -- none of the big-name e-commerce integrators can actually deliver the type of across-the-board expertise needed to get an e-tailer up and running ...

Not long ago, U.S. Vice President Al Gore took some serious ribbing for suggesting he played a major role in developing the World Wide Web. Now some of the same type of ridicule should be aimed at British Telecom for its pursuit of hyperlink patent royalties ...

Recently, when the U.S. Congress passed a bill giving digital signatures the same legal weight as old-fashioned pen-and-ink signatures, the concept of a paperless world once again reared its intriguing head ...

Small business seems to have a split personality when it comes to the Internet. Although nearly three quarters of U.S. small businesses have found it prudent to set up Web sites, most of them are strangely noncommittal. It is as though they neither want to miss the party nor have too much fun and end up hugging the porcelain ...

By definition, couch potatoes dislike getting active, and they may be even less inclined to get interactive ...

Goldman Sachs' Anthony Noto is highly respected as one of the most knowledgeable analysts in the dot-com world. But his recent listing of several online companies -- separating firms that are in the pink from those gasping for air -- should have everyone casting a more skeptical eye toward all "industry analyst predictions." The three-tiered list is top-heavy with Goldman Sachs underwriting clients...

Having set the Microsoft bonfire blazing, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson just cannot seem to resist piling on the logs ...

It was either American humorist Mark Twain or British politician Benjamin Disraeli who said there are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics. Considering that both gentlemen lived a century ago, it is amazing how applicable those words are today to the way industry analysts measure the success of e-commerce Web sites ...

A year or so ago, an oft-aired television commercial showed a businessman driving along a dusty, empty road and then pulling over to the shoulder where a colleague waited -- a solitary figure in a barren landscape. This very spot, the businessman was told, was where the company should build its headquarters ...

Viewed from any angle, immigration is a divisive issue. Unfortunately, politicians on both sides of the fence now have the power to sap considerable energy from the United States' high-tech fueled economy -- making immigration policies everyone's problem ...

Spurred on by the acquisition of Lycos by Terra Networks SA, Yahoo! will take an "aggressive and opportunistic" approach to moving into the European market this year, according to co-founder Jerry Yang ...